Originally Posted by rubberchicken
Originally Posted by ARCOgraphite
Stupid name "Cloud" is just likely a barracuda HDD stack somewhere inside some closet in some grimy building .
No Clouds or Creator involved.
ARCO, I wish it was that easy. It is far more complicated and larger in scale. Figure the average datacenter is at least 50k square feet, and you have to constantly provide cooling. The racks are stuffed with equipment- a rack could hold 200+ high capacity hard drives, and there could be hundreds of racks. You also need to aggregate these drives with special hardware and software, and further connect these into whatever style of storage management you are using. And that is just for basic cloud storage: high performance storage for special computing loads is a bit more complex, and costly. One of the larger data centers in my company used about $15,000 a month in electricity, and we have about 50 of them scattered around the world. One would think Canada would be great for hosting data centers, due to the lower average temps and reduced cooling load, but it turns out the higher cost of electricity negates that advantage.
Never knew they would be that large.
But to my point no "cloud" involved.
Fanciful language for gullible dolts.
Originally Posted by ARCOgraphite
Stupid name "Cloud" is just likely a barracuda HDD stack somewhere inside some closet in some grimy building .
No Clouds or Creator involved.
ARCO, I wish it was that easy. It is far more complicated and larger in scale. Figure the average datacenter is at least 50k square feet, and you have to constantly provide cooling. The racks are stuffed with equipment- a rack could hold 200+ high capacity hard drives, and there could be hundreds of racks. You also need to aggregate these drives with special hardware and software, and further connect these into whatever style of storage management you are using. And that is just for basic cloud storage: high performance storage for special computing loads is a bit more complex, and costly. One of the larger data centers in my company used about $15,000 a month in electricity, and we have about 50 of them scattered around the world. One would think Canada would be great for hosting data centers, due to the lower average temps and reduced cooling load, but it turns out the higher cost of electricity negates that advantage.
Never knew they would be that large.
But to my point no "cloud" involved.
Fanciful language for gullible dolts.
